Volume 89, Issue 5: October 3, 2008 North Park Press

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In This Issue
The Great Debate of 2008 Andrew Cohen
Feature Editor
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North Park University Student Newspaper
Volume 89, Issue 5 Friday, 3 October 2008
Cover Artist
Christine Wahlskog
Letter from the Editor
Upcoming Events
Cartoon
Running Through the Chains of
Slavery
A Smattering of Art by Laura Prentice
Magnuson to Reopen Sooner Rather
Than Later
Will Your Voice Be Heard?
Let’s Challenge Ourselves to Go Deeper
African Student Club
Chapel Happenings
Open Mic Night at Chianski’s
Hot List
Flat Stanley
Prohibition Sally Visits Wrigleyville
Between Iran and Hard Place
Homecoming Win
Just So You Know
Athlete of the Week
Navigating Depression
Puzzles
The Great Debate (continued)
Hibbard Book Drive
So What Do You Think?
Fireside Chat
Press
For those of you who
attended the NP soccer game v.
Wheaton rather then watch the
Presidential debates or were
too lazy to realize this historic
moment in your life, this ar-ticle
is for you, i.e.: read this.
The battle for who will take
office has gone through two
national conventions and now
the first Presidential debate.
With only four weeks left un-til
election day, more action is
promised to come. The United
States is involved in two glob-al
wars, owes China 500 bil-lion
dollars, and has bailed out
Wall St. with 700 billion dol-lars;
now is the time for action,
not merely words of change.
The growing sentiment of
America, as stated by junior
Ellie McClintock, was that the
“future will look bleaker for
the average citizen facing fi-nancial
hardships, with a high-er
cost of living in an economy
where the standard of living is
much lower.” Ironically the
average college-aged student
knows little to nothing about
either candidate, nor is there a
great willingness to dig deeper
then the mere superficial nature
of who our parents are going
to choose. That being said, this
article will dig into the topics
discussed from the economy,
including the 700 billion re-covery
plan and foreign
policy matters ranging
from Iraq and Afghanistan
to Iran and North Korea.
Obama accused the
“United States of being
in the worst economic de-pression
since that of the
Great Depression in the
early 20th century.” To
support that claim, Obama
noted the eight years of
failed economic progress
stimulated by the “trickle
down effect”, a process of
gorging the rich with more
money in the vain attempt
to stimulate the economy.
Obama called for a frame-work
of economic phi-losophy
that would regu-late
the sins of corporate
America, while delivering
more economic stimulus to
the middle class by giving
95% of citizens a tax cut.
McCain countered back
by stating that, “bipartisan
unity on the progress of
Wall St. and Main St. dur-ing
this fiscal crisis will be
the guide to redeveloping
financial independence.”
McCain cited that he saw
the “trainwreck” of the pres-ent
financial crises before it
happened, and vowed “to
hold greater accountability
of the high leadership with-in
the market where the ori-gin
of greed was rewarded.”
When asked about leader-ship
within the present fi-nancial
crises, McCain ex-hibited
his disgust with the
increase of earmarks and
pork barrel spending by
saying that, “we [Republi-cans]
came to change gov-ernment,
however govern-ment
changed us.” McCain
blamed Obama of wanting
to spend 800 billion dur-ing
his candidacy and rais-ing
taxes to citizens. The
economic plan for McCain
would double the amount
of money for a dependent
child in America from
3,500 to 7,000 dollars, and
would also give a 5,000-
dollar tax credit to fami-lies
for purchasing health
care outside of their current
company. McCain also not-ed
the taxes for businesses
within the United States
was at 35% compared to
Ireland at 11% which was
a deterrent for companies
to stay on native soil. Mc-
Cain couldn’t state enough
the need to cut spending,
even calling for a “spend-ing
freeze” on everything
except the military budget,
veteran affairs, education,
and health care. McCain
also spoke volumes about
the need for nuclear power
sites to end the dependence
on governments that are
hostile to the United States.
Countering, Obama stated
that, “18 billion dollars of
earmarks were accepted in
last years fiscal budget, and
that was not acceptable.”
Obama’s catch phrases of
“change” and “reform”
were put to the test when
discrediting McCain’s ap-proach
of delivering 300
billion to financial tax cuts
to the wealthy CEO’s of
fortune 500 companies.
Obama envisions growth
only through the middle
class, where he proposed
that if an individual makes
less then 250 thousand
dollars, then “not a dime
of taxes will be taken.”
Obama also disputed Mc-
Cain’s theory of taxes on
business, showing that the
companies McCain wished
to give a tax credit to were
the same ones jumping
through the large loopholes
within the system, allow-ing
them to avoid paying
the taxes. Obama reasoned
that in this economy, not
all things could be feasibly
done, citing the financial
deficit and the passing of
the 700 billion dollar eco-nomic
stimulus to Wall St.
companies. However, the
Mission Statement:
Our mission, that we have
chosen to accept, is to in-form,
inspire, entertain
and provide a forum of
discussion for all those in
the North Park commu-nity.
It is our goal to pres-ent
an outlet for all forms
of student expression and
to create a paper that you
want to read.
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Amanda Dayton
Michael Zielinski
Feature Editor
Andrew Cohen
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Local News Editor
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World News Editor
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Pulse Editor
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Sports Editor
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Copy Editor
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Layout Editor
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is a great step towards being green. Through water and waste reduction,
the staffers at the ARA are helping to make our campus more eco-friendly,
however they should not be the only ones supporting this cause.
As much as North Parkers may think that they support the envi-ronment,
I don’t always see it. With the exception of the Green
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on campus, I think we’re all victims of a little greenwashing.
Take for example, the excess waste of paper on campus or the
lack of campus-wide initiatives to save electricity. If we con-sider
ourselves a green university, why don’t we exhibit it?
Although the tray-less program is a significant push in the right direc-tion,
others need to assist in the green effort. As we progress through
the school year, I implore you to think before you print, turn off
your lights before you leave and pick up the trash beneath your feet.
Michael Zielinski, Editor-in-Chief
Letter from the Editor
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Monday, October 6 – Women’s Soccer vs. Wheaton 7:00pm
Wednesday, October 8 – Hispanic Heritage Month Performance by Pico
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So What Do You Think...
Amanda Dayton
Editor-in-Chief
Friday, 3 October 2008 North Park Press 3
Word from SA President Hannah Flint
Thank you all for a great Homecoming week. Tricia Pitts
and Nykki Thompson did a fantastic job organizing the
student events and Javiar Payano deserves credit for dili-gently
running all the media.
I was recently asked to write a thank-you for the schol-arships
I have received at North Park. I found it difficult
to express in a short note all of my thoughts and feelings
about North Park. As a freshman I struggled to feel con-nected
to the North Park community and I found lots of
differences between myself and my classmates. During my
sophomore year, through a fluke, I had the opportunity to
join Student Association and I began to learn to identify
with many different types of people at North Park. Student
Association provided me with a purposeful venue in which
to work with my fellow students for the good of the Uni-versity.
No matter what stage of your university career you
are in, I hope you have an opportunity to find purpose here
at North Park. My thank-you note expressed my gratitude
for the generosity of those who find their purpose in giving
back to North Park. In 10 years I hope to be giving back to
the university that taught me so much about living a pur-poseful
life.
At the Student Association meeting on Monday we heard
from Laurie Konecky, Threshold Coordinator. She asked
us to provide her some feedback on Threshold and ideas to
make it an even better event for next year. I would like to
open this offer up to the entire student body, if you have an
opinion about Threshold please email your class Senators
and we’ll work with Laurie to make it happen!
At your service,
Hannah Flint
Please, Please Tell Me!
construction of Obama’s
economic plan would not
be thwarted, because of the
need for alternative energy,
and health care reform, the
rebuilding of national in-frastructure,
and the com-petition
in education are
precedents to America’s
standing as a world power.
In relation to the lessons
of Iraq, McCain repeatedly
stated that the surge has
worked; leaving would only
endanger Iraq to more sec-tarian
violence, and in the
end hurt the United States
in security matters as well
as national prestige. Mc-
Cain sees potential in Iraq,
stating that its fledgling de-mocracy
will, in the future,
aid American interests as
an ally and economic part-ner.
McCain challenged
Obama’s belief in the abil-ity
of the military to “fin-ish
the job” in Iraq as well
as Obama’s understanding
of the need to control Iran
as an “existential threat to
the region and Israel” in
particular. If McCain were
elected, his foreign policy
would support the aid giv-en
to Pakistan to limit the
Taliban and Al-Queda pres-ence
in Pakistan and Af-ghanistan.
Yet the pinnacle
of foreign policy lies within
the success of Iraq by root-ing
out Iranian importation
of IEDs and other arms,
along with terrorist cells
within Iraq. McCain called
for a “league of democra-cies”
that share common
interests and ideas, to place
tougher sanctions on Iran
with the cooperation the
international community.
Obama contended that
the United States should
never have entered into
war against Iraq, because
of heinous leadership, no
presence of weapons of
mass destruction, and sig-nificantly
less international
aid. The job was not fin-ished
in Afghanistan, where
the 9/11 terrorists origi-nated,
and now the Taliban
and Al-Queda are stronger
than ever, the United States
simply, “took their eye off
the ball.” Obama refuted
McCain’s statements of
lack of financial support to
troops, by stating that “we
should never hesitate to use
our military, we just need
to use it wisely and not give
this current administration
a blank check with no set
limit.” The fundamental
difference that Obama had
with McCain on foreign
policy was that the United
States needed to shift its fo-cus
away from Iraq to Af-ghanistan,
Pakistan, Russia
and China. Obama believed
that while the United States
was engrossed in the Iraqi
occupation, China spread its
influence across the world,
diminishing the influence of
America as a super power.
“This is the most impor-tant
election in the history
of the United States,” pro-claimed
junior Joseph Wil-liams,
“this will determine
our standing relationship
with the world, and exis-tence
as a country.” Wheth-er
students realize it or not,
there will be a paramount
difference between life dur-ing
and life after college.
More people are going to
have additional credit prob-lems
when considering
loans for graduate school,
purchasing a car, house or
apartment, or insurance.
Now is not the time to stand
on the sidelines. Now is not
the time to remain ignorant
on policies. Now is the time
for our generation to rise up
to its potential and be heard.
Do what it takes to get in-formed;
go to discussion
groups, read newspapers,
check out the candidates
web pages, and register to
vote! There should be a
law against people who ab-stain
from voting yet have
the loudest voice of oppo-sition.
Now is most cer-tainly
a time for action, not
merely words of change. *
Upcoming Election Calander:
October 7 - Presidential debate at Belmont University
October 7- Voter registrator deadline for IL residence
October 15- Presidential debate at Hofstra University
November 4- General election
January 20- Innugration
The Writing Center is proud
and thrilled to be able to
say “2nd Annual” before
Hibbard Book Drive this
year. The Hibbard Book
Drive is going on from Oc-tober
6th-10th in Carlson
Lobby and is a phenomenal
way for you to support your
neighbors. It’s easy to feel
content in the North Park
bubble, potentially you
could go all 4 years (or 5 in
some cases...) without ever
having to really go outside
of your comfort zone. You
can go to all the downtown
sites with friends from NPU,
volunteer places with only
fellow North Parkers, go to
only Covenant churches or
perhaps saunter over to the
Wood on a Thursday night
to see and be seen. None
of these things are wrong,
but it makes it easy to live
in a big city without ever
really meeting the people
who create it. The Hib-bard
Book Drive and the
HERO (Hibbard Elemen-tary
Reach-Out) program
were made for exactly this
purpose. 90% of these kids
are living in household un-derneath
the poverty line,
90%! These are the kids
who live next door or in the
apartment across the street.
The Hibbard Book Drive
provides a way for you to
buy a book for students to
improve their classrooms
and library. We have a
whole bunch of bilingual
books this year as well as
Spanish books and their
English counterparts. This
provides an opportunity
for the students to take the
books home and learn Eng-lish
with their parents. The
HERO program is a chance
for you to use the skills
you’ve been acquiring here
at North Park in the class-rooms.
It’s a unique way
to get hands-on experience
before graduation, but with
a flexible schedule. One
hour a week, for one se-mester.
Are you into art?
We’ll set you up with an art
class! Love math? We’ll
get you paired up with a
math class. As you can see
there are so many places
for you within the greater
community, so come see
us next week in Carlson
and feel free to e-mail us
with questions at school-suppliesdrive@
gmail.com.
Hibbard Book Drive did you say?!
Well, that sounds fun!
Jennie Merrill
Copy Editor
In lieu of a “So What Do You Think” article this week I am going
to use my space to implore you to give us feedback on the paper. As a staff
we sit in the press office every Tuesday and Thursday night, often until
about 3 or 4 in the morning, trying to put together a paper you will enjoy.
When it comes down to it though, we are only fifteen individual students,
a small percentage of the student body. What we might think is really great
about the paper you might hate. Maybe we even took out your favorite
component from last year.
So, my apologetic rambling aside, I really just ask that you answer
some questions for us. You can respond by:
A) writing on our facebook group’s wall
B) sending me a facebook message
C) emailing me at northparkpress.gmail.com
D) taking this questionnaire, filling it out, cutting it out, and sliding it un-der
the press room door
E) coming talk to us on Tuesday or Thursday nights at 7pm.
Our questions for you include:
1. Do you like the new “newspaper” layout or did you prefer the maga-zine?
2. How does the content of our writing rate?
3. What would you still like to see in the paper?
4. What do you think we should take out?
5. Any other comments…
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Mind
Puzzles
Can you do this? Say
the color of the word
not the word itself.
Ben Van Loon
Student Writer
Navigating
Depression
As I’m sure most of
you know, Autumn is now
upon us. The leaves will
die with traditional verid-ian
melancholy, and the
puce-colored North Branch
of the Chicago River will
slowly lose its familiar
and welcoming warmth.
Philosophers love the Fall.
Poets love the Fall. Artists
love the Fall. And, more
than anyone else, Phar-maceuticals
love the Fall.
According to Modern-
Medicine.com, in 2006,
over 186 million people
were taking prescription
anti-depressants, with that
number remaining stable
throughout most of 2007
as well. This is not count-ing
the number of people
pursuing herbal remedies,
therapy, and other alterna-tive
modes of psychologi-cal
healing. These numbers
are interesting to consider,
but I’m not a statistician, so
I won’t make any declara-tive
statements. Though,
if the sales of anti-depres-sants
can reveal any one
specific thing to us, it is that
there is a problem with the
American Spirit. Alternate-ly,
one may need only look
to content of the advertis-ing
industry to arrive at the
same conclusion. After all,
how else would we know
what Zoloft is if it wasn’t
for that bouncing circle?
I provide a counterpoint
to this saddening state of
things. As we look to those
browning leaves, drifting
slowly into the streets of
our quiet neighborhood
in Albany Park, it will be
helpful and encouraging to
keep a condition in mind:
Dysthymia. Mentalhealth.
com says that Dysthymia
is “a chronic condition
characterized by depres-sive
symptoms that occur
for most of the day, more
days than not, for at least 2
years.” And at this point, it
stands that we are all famil-iar
with the symptoms of
depression: lethargy, loss
of appetite, an increased
disinterest in social activ-ity,
palpable melancholy,
and DVD box-sets of
‘House’ or ‘Six Feet Under.’
What is interesting about
Dysthymia, besides all of
that psychological banter,
is its more existential im-plications.
Rarediseases.
org, an extremely entertain-ing
website, says this about
Dysthymia: “When the
depressive state has lasted
for several years, it may
be difficult to distinguish
between a person’s usual
functioning and the mood
disturbance.” The existen-tial
implication here is el-ementary
- you might have
Dysthymia without even
knowing. A habit we have,
with most psychological
states, is to explain them
away with scientific terms
and chemical or neuro-chemical
interactions. We
forget, as the adage goes,
that everything biologi-cal
is equally psychologi-cal.
Or is that ‘everything
psychological is equally
diagnosible?’ Either way
it stands that there isn’t
much room here for theory.
I don’t mean to cause any
of you paranoia, which is
more serious than depres-sion.
Though it might be
helpful to know that if you
are paranoid, you are lack-ing
some of the symptoms
of depression (ie: apathy).
Be encouraged in this.
Dysthymia is no laughing
matter, though if you were
depressed you wouldn’t re-ally
be sure. I do have three
ideas to propose, how-ever,
which may be help-ful
to you if feel this is a
condition all-too-familiar:
1) Make friends. They
are a great distraction from
whatever existential angst
may be bearing down upon
you. This is the way most
people treat their friends,
in fact - a philanthropic
form of entertainment.
2) Don’t ever ask why.
SPORTS
Homecoming Win
Luc Larson
FGuest Writer ootball’s 35-10
victory over Benedic-tine
on Saturday capped
off a perfect homecom-ing
week for North Park.
It began with a beautiful,
cloudless day in the upper
80’s. Groundskeeper Rich
Eckman was busy finish-ing
his weekend routine of
cleaning and preparing the
field for the day’s events.
The players were stretching
and the cheers were start-ing.
Katie Lord and Katie
Cavallo opened the game
with a beautiful ode to
America, which was writ-ten
by Lord and her sister.
Next came the main
event, as the football team
came out to a charged and
packed crowd. Benedictine
scored first with a 22-yard
field goal, but North Park
was quick to answer with
a reverse run and pass as
Jeremy Dybdahl connect-ed
with Sam Lialios for a
31-yard touchdown pass.
North Park took firm con-trol
of the game with the
defense owning 7 turn-overs,
allowing the offense
to steamroll Benedictine.
Senior Jacob Mueller ran
for a total of 98 yards and
Just So You Know
Colby Anderson
Sports Editor
two touchdowns. Quarter-back
Shelby Wood passed
for 126-yards and two
touchdowns to Sam Co-
Athlete of
the Week
Colby Anderson
Sports Editor
chiaro and Sam Lialios.
Halftime brought the
announcement of Home-coming
King Adrian
Battle and Queen Tanikia
Thompson and an electri-fying
performance by the
cheer squad, which prac-ticed
4 times a week in
photo by Luc Larson
Here’s a quick re-cap
of this weekend’s
NPU sporting events:
The Men’s Soccer Team
The sports section
will be featuring what will
now be known as the North
Park Press Athlete of the
Week. What better way
to start this off than to ac-knowledge
the victorious
Rue the day you ever did.
Shun philosophy and, along
with your friends, mock
anyone who might cause
you to think differently.
3) Take anti-depressants. If
you feel you are depressed,
listen to the wisdom of
your friends. Depression
is PURELY chemical.
I’ve always felt I could
trust the smile of a person
if I knew it was fueled by
serotonin-norepineph-efforts
of the North Park
Football Vikings? Forcing
six fumbles and recovering
four of them, the Defense
swarmed the ball and got
strong pressure into the
backfield. Lighting up the
scoreboard for thirty five
points, the Offense, despite
hitting a few minor snags
here and there, capital-ized
on the hard work of
the Defense. In admitting
that Benedictine was a very
weak opponent, we can still
take joy in this victory and
look ahead to next Satur-day’s
game at Wheaton
(1pm). Wheaton will be a
much more challenging op-ponent
and I look forward
to seeing how our North
Park Football Vikings face
this test. Whatever the case,
there is definitely a growing
buzz around what has been
a perennially disappointing
program. Perhaps this vic-tory
was a flash in the pan,
but after all the hard work
put in over the summer and
throughout this young sea-son,
I’d like to think that this
victory was a sign of things
to come. If you believe an
afternoon of playing video
games or watching football
on TV is better than going
to a North Park football
game, then you are sadly
mistaken. NEXT HOME
GAME!!! SATURDAY
OCTOBER 11th 1PM!!! *
fell to Wheaton in a close
one 1-2. A depleted Wom-en’s
Soccer Team (six play-ers
unable to play) lost to
Webster 0-3. The Women’s
Volleyball Team lost to
FREELANCE
Elmhurst in five games,
but is riding high on a very
nice 15-6 record. And last,
but most certainly not least,
the Football Team domi-nated
Benedictine 35-14.
In a brief look into Intramu-ral
Football, quarterback
Sean Burke completed
the game winning pass to
tight end Peter “Formerly-known-
as-Goose” Gosen
for the 2-point conversion
with only eight seconds
left. Giving Amish Rake-fight
the win over their
opponent, a well-rounded
team led by Ross Kennedy
and Matt Carlson. I attend-ed
the game and greatly en-joyed
the 58-57 barnburner.
NOTICE: Anyone with
footage of Ryan Dono-van’s
ridiculous catches
will be paid and their foot-age
submitted to ESPN
for national display. *
preparation for the show.
The star of the day though,
was the North Park football
team who showed the real
talent and capabilities they
hold. Not since September
15 of last year were players
able to sing their victory
chant, and sing they did. *
rine reuptake inhibitors.
Victorian-era poet Robert
Browning said, “Autumn
wins you best by this its
mute appeal to sympathy
for its decay.” This line
lights up the room, if only
for its bare celebration of
the changing seasons. The
question one should pon-der
at this point is if the
leaves on the trees look
more beautiful framed by
your bedroom window, or a
naked and melancholy twi-light
sky. If you are unsure,
and have never thought
about these things then I
leave you with two options.
Has such a melacholy be-come
so deeply rooted in
our consciousness that we
can no longer distinguish
what is and is not outside
the bedroom window. Or,
might Escitalopram simply
enhance our vision. (This
article has been funded
by a small grant from
Forest Laboratories). *
Congradulations to Krista
Johnson for winning the
coloring contest in Issue 2!
She gets a giftcard to Star-bucks...
you should have
entered, duh!
LOCAL
News
Prohibition Sally Visits
Wrigleville Kylee Reynolds
Local News Editor
Friday, 3 October 2008 North Park Press 5
Eric Turner
I World News Editor n the first Presiden-tial
Debate last week, one
of the more contentious
points of debate was over
an issue that has been kept
out of the public eye, but
could potentially be one of
the most important issues
our next President will
face: the plan for Pakistan.
Overshadowed in the
news by Iraq and neigh-boring
Afghanistan, Paki-stan
is in a perilous posi-tion,
both geographically
and politically. Pakistan
borders both Afghanistan
and Iran, as well as India, a
nation Pakistan has fought
numerous wars with in the
past, and currently is main-taining
an uneasy peace.
Politically, the nation is
highly unstable, isn’t even
in control of large parts
of it’s territory, and prone
to violence, evidenced by
the assassination of for-mer
president Benazir
Bhutto last December, and
the bombing of the Mar-riott
Hotel last month that
killed over 40 people. On
top of that, the nation is
Between Iran &
a Hard Place
one of the few in the world
with access to nuclear
weaponry, making things
much more complicated.
But perhaps the biggest
issue in Pakistan with rami-fications
for the rest of the
world is the presence of Al
Qaeda in Pakistan. Along
the nation’s mountainous
northwest border with Paki-stan
lie various tribal areas,
which are given autonomy
from the Pakistani govern-ment.
It is widely believed
that large remnants of Al
Qaeda, and possibly even
Osama bin Laden himself,
reside in these regions of
Pakistan. Pakistan has re-fused
to attack in the au-tonomous
tribal areas, fear-ing
it could cause unrest
in the country. With the
resurgence of violence in
Afghanistan and growing
frustration at the fact that
Bin Laden remains at large,
there has been increasing
pressure for the United
States and NATO to go into
Pakistan to track down rem-nants
of Al Qaeda, since it
appears Pakistan cannot
do it on their own without
risking significant instabil-ity,
or even terrorist attacks
like the hotel bombing.
There are obvious risks to
doing something like this.
Pakistan has historically
been a strong ally of the
United States, and former
President Pervez Musharraf
was one of the most visible
world leaders to assist the
United States during the
initial invasion of Afghani-stan.
The New York Times
estimates that over $10 Bil-lion
in military aid has been
given to Pakistan since
9-11, in return for control-ling
Al Qaeda within their
borders and assisting the
overall war on terror. As the
nation shares a border with
Afghanistan and Iran, it’s
assistance in foreign affairs
is vital to American inter-ests.
Pakistan is well armed,
and has the potential to be
a significant ally in a criti-cally
important part of the
world; and a well armed,
nuclear powered night-mare
if they were to turn
against the United States.
Because of this, the Unit-ed
States is between a rock
and a hard place: Go into
Pakistan to attack Al Qae-da,
and anger the Pakistani
government, or do nothing,
allowing Al Qaeda to con-tinue
to survive, but keeping
good terms with Pakistan.
In the past, NATO has re-fused
to attack Al Qaeda in
Pakistan without Pakistani
approval. As of late, how-ever,
this appears to have
changed: despite an official
statement that NATO was
not involved in Pakistan, on
September 3rd, a predawn
raid on a Pakistani village
believed to be used by Al
Qaeda resulted in anywhere
from 7 to 20 deaths, some
of which are allegedly ci-vilians.
This lead to wide-spread
outrage in Pakistan,
as the raid was widely
believed to have been car-ried
out by NATO forces.
As a result, the director
of Pakistan’s armed forces
informed his soldiers to
fire upon any NATO forces
seen entering the country.
This resulted in an incident
on September 22, when,
according to the BBC,
Pakistani forces exchanged
fire with NATO forces
conducting a strike in the
country. While there were
no casualties, the incident
has dramatically increased
tensions between Pakistan
and the NATO allies. Any
further escalation could be
disastrous for both sides.
Naturally, this complicat-ed,
critical issue has spilled
over to the Presidential
campaign, as both Barack
Obama and John McCain
have been pressed on how
they would handle the cri-sis.
Obama has gone on
record as stating that, if the
United States had identified
the location of top Al Qaeda
officials in Pakistan, they
should not hesitate to attack
that location, regardless of
how Pakistan would react.
John McCain has suggest-ed
that politicians should
remain silent on the issue,
and deal with the matter
privately, although running
mate Sarah Palin has en-dorsed
the idea of air strikes
within Pakistani territory.
The situation in Pakistan
may not get nearly as much
attention as its neighbors,
but it is just as critical as
any situation in the world.
Though the situation may
be erupting halfway around
the world, it’s aspects- ter-rorism,
Bin Laden, Nuclear
Weapons, Afghanistan, and
the threat of war-are all is-sues
that affect us here at
home. Regardless of it’s
outcome, this situation
alerts us to just the type of
difficult decisions our fu-ture
leaders must make. *
WORLD
News
www.worldatlas.com
Mayor Daley
has asked the bars in
Wrigleyville to oblige
to the rule followed in-side
the stadium: no al-cohol
served after the
seventh inning stretch.
It is hoped that this one
hour ban on beer will
help stop the crazy
partying that happens
when the Cubs play.
While agreeing to the
ban is voluntary, May-or
Daley has made it
known that establish-ments
that resist will
have some trouble
when it comes to re-newing
their liquor
license. In response
to the complaints
given by bar owners
about the curb in rev-enue
they are bound
to experience, Daley
scoffed with the retort,
“they made enough
money all year.”
Owners are worried
that the customers
who lack tickets to the
game and end up on
their barstools, will
dash to bars not having
to succumb to the ban.
As soon as games end,
the bars would be free
to re-open, so the only
business lost would be
that by onlookers in
bars during the last in-nings
of the game. Ulti-mately,
bars can expect
a surge of beer sales
during the sixth inning
to last them through
the end of the game.
Since Mayor Daley
hasn’t been one to fos-ter
ideas like this in the
past, it has been specu-lated
that his decision
behind this is partly
because the location
for the 2016 Olympics
is still being decided,
with Chicago as one
of the top contenders.
Alderman Thomas
Tunney (44th), whose
ward reaches to Wrig-leyville,
said in an in-terview
with the Chi-cago
Tribune, “The
Mayor wants everyone
on their best behavior.”
When a game ends,
Cubs’ fans roam wild in
the streets of Chicago
and quite a few trickle
back up here to North
Park. When told about
the ban, one student
responded, “I think
it’s a ridiculous deci-sion
that compromises
an important aspect of
a long held tradition
in Chicago’s culture.”
Alternately, another
student said, “that’s
a really good idea. It
would be much safer.”
As the Cubs duke
it out for their first
World Series win in
a hundred years, one
can be assured that
for every soda-sipping
fan, there will be one
fan not drunk enough
for his favorite lei-sure,
complaining. *
Amanda Dayton
Wally G.
6 North Park Press Friday, 3 October 2008
PULSE
Hot List Liz Boyd
Open Mic Night Pulse Editor
at Chianski’s!
Liz Boyd
Pulse Editor
Meet Stanley, Flat Stanley, the newest member of the
North Park Campus. The long established tradition of elemen-tary
schools across the nation has now made its way to our
university. The Flat Stanley Project is based on the book Flat
Stanley by Jeff Brown. It chronicles the life of young Stanley
Lambchop who, after an unfortunate mishap with a bulletin
board, gets flattened. Then, to save money on a trip to Califor-nia,
he mails himself to friends for school vacation. For over
ten years now school children all over the country have been
mailing their own Flat Stanleys to friends and relatives, and
learning about places they have never been before. Now it is
your turn, North Park. This is your chance to make your own
Flat Stanley. Take him around North Park – to your dorm,
your apartment, Millennium Park, or even the zoo. Mail him
to a friend. Whatever you do with your Stanley, take a picture
and send it back to us at the paper. The most creative Stanley
pictures will be featured in upcoming issues of the Press. This
little project we’ve created serves another purpose as well. Ev-ery
week, thirty or so North Parkers spend time tutoring stu-dents
at Hibbard Elementary School, our neighbor to the south.
These students will be doing the same project and we want
them to have some examples to look upon. So show Stanley
your North Park. Or your Chicago. Cut out Stanley and deco-rate
him, or go to flatstanley.com and print out your own. Send
your pictures to northparkpress@gmail.com or bring them by
the Press office in the basement of Burgh. I’m sending mine to
friends in India and Sweden, where will your Flat Stanley go?
Flat
Stanley
Christine Wahlskog
Student Writer
Cut me
out and
color
me!
‘Open mic’ is a
term that every vocal art-ist
should be familiar with.
Open mic is just that: a mi-crophone
set-up where po-ets,
singers, and instrumen-talists
can show off their
(sometimes) considerable
talents. If you are one of
these talented people then
Chinaski’s is the place for
you . . . at least on Wednes-day
nights. Every Wednes-day
night Chianski’s, lo-cated
at 1935 N Damen St,
hosts a free literary open
mic. So all of you poets
and writers of prose, this is
an event specifically fash-ioned
for you. Chinaski’s,
formerly known as Whis-key
Road, is fairly new.
This bar is also host to a
Thursday night comedy
open mic. The bar is so
devoted to literary aware-ness
that the name of the
bar/restaurant is from an
autobiographical Charles
Bukowski character (a Ger-man
poet and short story/
novel writer) as well as
having all the sandwiches
on their menu named after
maverick poets and au-thors.
To sign up, merely
show up at 7:30 p.m. that
night and the performances
start at 8:00 p.m. If you’re
the strong silent type and
don’t feel like perform-ing,
you can simply go and
watch the artistry unfold.
5.) The service – Did anyone else feel like roy-alty?
The waiters and waitresses did a fantastic
job presenting the food and bringing it around.
4.) The DJ- The music was poppin’ as was
evidence by the copious amounts of students
dancing.
3.) The shark feeding – how many times in
your life will you get to see that Scuba Steve
looking guy swimming with the sharks, giant
sea turtles, and various fish?
2.) Fellow Students – With the exception of
a few boxer-wearing people, everyone was
dressed to kill and it’s always nice to see every-one
so dressed up!
1.) The Location – The Shedd Aquarium was
so cool and for those who had never been it was
a revelation. Just a thin sheet of glass separated
you from the deep blue sea. It was awesome.
Five Great Things about
Homecoming Dance!
The Parkyns gettin’ their groove on at the dance!
North Parkers gettin’ their groove on at the dance!
CAMPUS
News
Marcus Simmons Campus News Editor
Magnuson to reopen sooner rather than later
Although the dam­age to Magnuson Campus Center is quite extensive, Carl Balsam, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the university, is hopeful con­cerning its reopening.
In response to a question about whether it would be next semester before Magnuson would reopen, Balsam stated that, “I cer­tainly would expect it to be sooner rather than later [next semester].”
Just over two weeks ago, historic flooding of the North Branch led to the evacuation of more than 300 Albany Park homes, two university dormitories, and the closing of Magnu­son Campus Center due to extensive flood damage. Although residents have returned to their homes and students to their dorms, Magnuson Campus Center has yet to be reopened for regular use. Balsam and Physical Plant workers say that, “this is probably the worst that we’ve ever seen here at North Park in terms of damage and it’s going to cost us a lot of money.”
“The overall recovery of the equipment room in Magnuson basement is a long, long process,” Balsam continues, “because a lot of that equipment was ruined being underwater. The city has codes that require any electrical stuff that was underwater to be totally replaced.” According to him, Magnuson is under­going careful evaluations to determine what equip­ment has to be replaced and what may still be function­al. “There are air handlers and boilers and pumps and all kinds of equipment. Each one of those pieces of equipment will have to be checked out. Some might be repairable and some we might have to just totally replace with new.”
Many of the same contrac­tors responsible for the work on Helwig and the recent Burgh Hall renovation have dropped current projects in order to assist with restor­ing the forty-two-year-old Campus Center. “We’ve got some very clever peo­ple working for us,” Bal­sam explains. He has hired a recovery manager to lead the re-construction efforts, someone who has managed much of the restoration of the Marshall Fields stores in 1992 after flooding in in­dustrial tunnels downtown damaged 230 buildings and caused them to close temporarily. The recovery team has been able to make many strides towards their goal of restoring campus life back to normal. The kitchen power is back in working condition, several temporary hot water heaters have been installed to pro­vide hot water for cleaning kitchen equipment, and the ventilation system is work­ing again. As a result, Ara­mark has been able to move back into its kitchen, where it can support the dining operation in Hamming. Up until recently, supplies and goods were brought from Northwestern University.
The next goal is to get stu­dents back into the dining hall, but this may prove to a substantial challenge. “The challenge there is the ven­tilation requirements in the building and so we are de­veloping a temporary way of providing adequate ven­tilation in the dining hall; that’s what we’re working on right now,” Balsam ex­plains. “We’ll have to make sure that the city agrees with our plan and that they are able to check it out and agree that it provides ad­equate ventilation. I think were talking in terms of weeks not months on that unless we get shot down, which we’re not expecting.”
The university has at­tempted some substantial, and costly, improvements in the last couple of years. This began with the acqui­sition and renovation of the Park North and Sawyer Court apartment buildings in addition tothat was fol­lowed by the construction of the Helwig Recreation Center. Salary, Stipend, and Hourly pay was recently raised in the midst of sig­nificant tuition adjustments. Furthermore, several de­partments have grown in staff while entirely new de­partments, like the Office of Diversity and Inter-Cultural Programs, have been creat­ed. Burgh and parts of Wil­son and Hanson Halls Old Main were most recently renovated. One might ask if all of this, coupled with the cost of flood repairs will affect plans for the newAcademic and Com­munity Life Student Union building announced recent­ly by the President. Bal­sam says, “I don’t think so. Most of that [money] will come from donor sources. So we’re still working on that plan to ensure thatsee if we can raise the money required we need to raise. That would be a separate item and I don’t know that they’re particularly linked.”
Although hopeful, Bal­sam is careful not to give a definitive date for the reopening of Magnuson
I’m so sick and tired of invites to Starbucks. It seems like the cliché thing to do, when you’re trying to get to know someone. Most of us are guilty of it. We go to the Starbucks on Fos­ter Ave. where we’re sure to see at least two famil­iar faces from North Park, pay for overpriced coffee and milk, have an hour of surface conversation, and go about our merry way. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ready to go deeper. Last year I went on Facebook and deleted all of my so called “friends”. It may sound like I was be­ing immature, but hear me out. Facebook provides you with the basic information of my hometown, birthday and religion, but you don’t know me. Facebook grants you access to view photos of my family, friends and the places I’ve traveled to, but you still don’t know me. Facebook allows you to see what I want you to see. If I dislike a comment that someone wrote on my page, I simply delete it. If I dislike a picture if me, I simply untag it. Facebook
Let’s Challenge Ourselves to Go Deeper
Tanikia “Nykki” Thompson
Campus News Editor
will never allow you to know the struggles and confusion of me having one brother who is mental­ly challenged and another who is handicap. You’d never know that last fall after I moved into Sawyer Court, while taking my first shower there I cried, be­cause I knew that my fam­ily at home were still tak­ing cold showers since our gas had been cut off due to lack of money. We must ask ourselves what lies behind a smile? What lies behind the common “Hi, how are you? Good, how are you? Good.”? Starbucks may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, but don’t let it end there. This year I took the challenge of living in a diverse house. After partic­ipating in two Sankofa trips (University Ministries ra­cial reconciliation trip that I personally believe should be a graduation require­ment), I was ready to go deeper. Our house consists of four white women and four black women. Every Tuesday evening we have our small group meeting which consists of catch­ing up, an activity, prayer, and a chance to go deeper. I wonder what would’ve happened if after Sankofa we simply just met up at Starbucks throughout the year, but remained in our comfort zones. After all isn’t this what college is about? We come to col­lege to obtain an educa­tion, but to also challenge ourselves to go deeper. If you’re the same person on graduation day that you were as a freshman on the first day of Threshold, then something’s wrong. I know that we’re all busy with classes, work, etc., but we must have balance. Let’s take time out of our busy schedules to spend quality time with someone who we only know on the surface. You’d be surprised to find out who’s anxiously wait­ing to be invited to your house for the weekend. You may even be surprised to learn that someone who you consider to be a friend has been patiently waiting to go deeper with you. Let the challenge begin… Now!*
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-
Are you regis­tered to vote? I hope so. It’s only every four years that we can participate in a presidential election.
Whether you’re Republi­can or Democrat, it’s safe to say that the 2008 presi­dential elections will be history making. It was 1920 when women received their right to vote and now Sarah Palin could make history by becoming the first wom­an to be a Vice President. It was 1870 when black men were granted their right to vote and now Barack Obama could make history by becoming the first black man to be President. Those facts alone are inspiring the younger generation to participate in this election. “This is my first time vot­ing in a presidential elec­tion, and as an African American young woman it is unacceptable not to vote when my ancestors would have loved to have had the opportunity to vote and to have witnessed an African American man be consid­ered as the potential presi­dent of the United States of America”, Ramona Gant, Junior. Registering to vote isn’t as hard as you may
Will Your Voice Be Heard?
Tanikia “Nykki” Thompson
Campus News Editor
because he doesn’t want to disappoint the North Park community. “All I can tell you is we’re going flat out, t. Trying to do everything we can to restore normality to the students’ lives and I think from a student per­spective, it will very shortly appear like pretty normal.”*
think it is. Simply go to Brandel Library and regis­ter with Sue Griffith (lower level) or Sally Anderson. “It’s important to vote for two reasons: It’s our right and it’s an exciting election because of our problems with the economy and gas prices. I love to see college students participate in an election,” said Sue Griffith. Voter registration deadline is October 7th, but there will be a grace period reg­istration Oct. 8-21, which must be in person only at the Election Board if you miss the deadline. We have more power than we think. It’s up to us to heal this na­tion, to demand change, and to let our voices be heard. Please don’t let this historic moment pass you by. In the following weeks there will be a variety of events on campus to inform students about voting, nominees, etc. Please attend these events and discussions in order to be well prepared for No­vember 4th (Election Day).
“If a man hasn’t discov­ered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- *
The African Student Club is a newly created group that seeks to broaden the cultural horizon of students, while striving to highlight the international experi­ence of African students at North Park University. This group was created as a re­sponse to the substantial growth and recent increase in enrollment of African students on campus. The purpose of this club is:
To unite students that are either from or in­terested in Africa.
To provide students with meaningful oppor­tunities to experience au­thentic African culture through campus events, social events, workshops and educational venues.
To be a cross cultural bridge that joins North Park University to other Chicago based institu­tions that work positive­ly for change in Africa.
From Sudan, Kenya, Mali, Eritrea, Guinea, Ni­geria, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia, Congo, Uganda and more, these students bring unique sto­ries, exceptional experienc­es and different voices that add immensely to the glob­al culture of the University.
For more information, please e-mail sthontwa@northpark.edu. And stay tune for our first event on October 4th, 7pm, in Anderson chapel.*
African
Student Club
Come celebrate the culmination of His­panic Heritage month next Wednesday! All of September focused on the issue of time, with Rene Rochester closing out the month speaking about her own experiences with God. Last Wednes­day, the chapel gath­ered together to share communion. Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God, Mud­house Sabbath, and Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, was the speaker. Now as we enter into the month of October we will begin a series on authority. Next week we welcome Samuel Betances as he comes to speak about the dif­ference between power and authority. LASO will be serving refresh­ments. So whether you come to sing all our Spanish worship or to be challenged by Dr. Betances mes­sage, enjoy and join in this time of gathering to praise our Lord.*
Chapel Happenings
Laurel Wells
Student Writer
http://clubs.calvin.edu8 North Park Press Wednesday, 24 September 2008
I turn 51 this year. This year on October 12, 2008, I will be running my 6th Chicago Marathon.
First, please allow me to thank you for your prayers and your support for my efforts. I ran my first Chi­cago Marathon in 2003. In the years 2003-05, you sup­ported me and gave very generously to fight cancer. In 2006, I ran the Chicago Marathon to raise money to fight AIDS through World Vision. I dedicated my 2005 and 2006 runs to my sister who died of ovarian cancer. She was a great supporter of World Vision. I am truly grateful for your generous support during these runs. I dedicated my 2007 Chicago Marathon run and the 200 mile New Hampshire Re­lay to fight Global Slavery.
This year also I dedicate my 2008 Chicago Mara­thon to fight global slav­ery through the Break the Chains initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church’s Women’s Minis­try. According to the United Nations Commission for hu­man rights, there are more that 30 million slaves in the world today. 80 % of these are women and more that 50 % of these are children.
At North Park University, in the past six years, I have taught a Dialogue course on Global Slavery. It has been an excruciatingly hard experience, since I was reared in New Delhi, among kids who were sold into slavery. My friends, as young as 8 yrs old, were sold into slavery into plac­es like the carpet industry. Young girls- 12 yrs old were sold as slaves into the sex trade. They just disap­peared one after another.
Global slavery is a real modern day horror. Ap­proximately two million children are enslaved in the commercial sex trade. Ex­ploiting poverty, this form of slavery is woven into the local economy of many countries. Nearly 300,000 children are forced to serve in bloody armed conflicts around the world. “Kill or be killed,” is what these chil­dren face on a daily basis.
An estimated 250 mil­lion children work in exploitative labor condi­tions around the world. From manufacturing sweatshops to domestic service, without choice, these children, may not be “technically “ slaves. But, they serve as slaves to in­dustry and the wealthy.
This year, please may I request you to support my run to eradicate global slavery through the “Break the Chains Initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church? The Women’s Ministry has dedicated these funds to go to fight­ing slavery through two hard working organiza­tions: One, the Hindustani Covenant Church in India. This church has a profound ministry in the slums of Mumbai, Pune, and many other towns and cities, from where kids- boys and girls- are taken into slavery. Two,
Running Through the Chains of Slavery
Prof. Boaz Johnson
the International Justice Mission has several pro­grams around the world to free and then to train freed slaves so that they remain free. You may learn more about these organizations through the following links: http://www.hccindia.org/ and http://www.ijm.org/ .
Please may I request you to support my small effort to raise money to eradi­cate Global Slavery? My prayer is the Wilberforce’s “Amazing Grace” will bear fruit through your sacrifi­cial giving. The best way to support my run to eradi­cate slavery is through the Covenant Church website: http://www.covchurch.org/humantrafficking/engag­ing-for-transformation/ath­letes-break-the-chains. You may also send me checks made out to ECC in support of Boaz Johnson’s run to Break the Chains. May God bless you richly as slaves are freed from slavery in dif­ferent parts of the world.*
A Smattering of Artwork by
Laura Prentice
Upper Left: Giant Quilt Project, Lower Left: Melanie and Haley, Lower Right: Old Lady in the City,
Middle Right: Relief Artist (Mosther and Child), Up­per Right: The Dream

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Park
In This Issue
The Great Debate of 2008 Andrew Cohen
Feature Editor
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North Park University Student Newspaper
Volume 89, Issue 5 Friday, 3 October 2008
Cover Artist
Christine Wahlskog
Letter from the Editor
Upcoming Events
Cartoon
Running Through the Chains of
Slavery
A Smattering of Art by Laura Prentice
Magnuson to Reopen Sooner Rather
Than Later
Will Your Voice Be Heard?
Let’s Challenge Ourselves to Go Deeper
African Student Club
Chapel Happenings
Open Mic Night at Chianski’s
Hot List
Flat Stanley
Prohibition Sally Visits Wrigleyville
Between Iran and Hard Place
Homecoming Win
Just So You Know
Athlete of the Week
Navigating Depression
Puzzles
The Great Debate (continued)
Hibbard Book Drive
So What Do You Think?
Fireside Chat
Press
For those of you who
attended the NP soccer game v.
Wheaton rather then watch the
Presidential debates or were
too lazy to realize this historic
moment in your life, this ar-ticle
is for you, i.e.: read this.
The battle for who will take
office has gone through two
national conventions and now
the first Presidential debate.
With only four weeks left un-til
election day, more action is
promised to come. The United
States is involved in two glob-al
wars, owes China 500 bil-lion
dollars, and has bailed out
Wall St. with 700 billion dol-lars;
now is the time for action,
not merely words of change.
The growing sentiment of
America, as stated by junior
Ellie McClintock, was that the
“future will look bleaker for
the average citizen facing fi-nancial
hardships, with a high-er
cost of living in an economy
where the standard of living is
much lower.” Ironically the
average college-aged student
knows little to nothing about
either candidate, nor is there a
great willingness to dig deeper
then the mere superficial nature
of who our parents are going
to choose. That being said, this
article will dig into the topics
discussed from the economy,
including the 700 billion re-covery
plan and foreign
policy matters ranging
from Iraq and Afghanistan
to Iran and North Korea.
Obama accused the
“United States of being
in the worst economic de-pression
since that of the
Great Depression in the
early 20th century.” To
support that claim, Obama
noted the eight years of
failed economic progress
stimulated by the “trickle
down effect”, a process of
gorging the rich with more
money in the vain attempt
to stimulate the economy.
Obama called for a frame-work
of economic phi-losophy
that would regu-late
the sins of corporate
America, while delivering
more economic stimulus to
the middle class by giving
95% of citizens a tax cut.
McCain countered back
by stating that, “bipartisan
unity on the progress of
Wall St. and Main St. dur-ing
this fiscal crisis will be
the guide to redeveloping
financial independence.”
McCain cited that he saw
the “trainwreck” of the pres-ent
financial crises before it
happened, and vowed “to
hold greater accountability
of the high leadership with-in
the market where the ori-gin
of greed was rewarded.”
When asked about leader-ship
within the present fi-nancial
crises, McCain ex-hibited
his disgust with the
increase of earmarks and
pork barrel spending by
saying that, “we [Republi-cans]
came to change gov-ernment,
however govern-ment
changed us.” McCain
blamed Obama of wanting
to spend 800 billion dur-ing
his candidacy and rais-ing
taxes to citizens. The
economic plan for McCain
would double the amount
of money for a dependent
child in America from
3,500 to 7,000 dollars, and
would also give a 5,000-
dollar tax credit to fami-lies
for purchasing health
care outside of their current
company. McCain also not-ed
the taxes for businesses
within the United States
was at 35% compared to
Ireland at 11% which was
a deterrent for companies
to stay on native soil. Mc-
Cain couldn’t state enough
the need to cut spending,
even calling for a “spend-ing
freeze” on everything
except the military budget,
veteran affairs, education,
and health care. McCain
also spoke volumes about
the need for nuclear power
sites to end the dependence
on governments that are
hostile to the United States.
Countering, Obama stated
that, “18 billion dollars of
earmarks were accepted in
last years fiscal budget, and
that was not acceptable.”
Obama’s catch phrases of
“change” and “reform”
were put to the test when
discrediting McCain’s ap-proach
of delivering 300
billion to financial tax cuts
to the wealthy CEO’s of
fortune 500 companies.
Obama envisions growth
only through the middle
class, where he proposed
that if an individual makes
less then 250 thousand
dollars, then “not a dime
of taxes will be taken.”
Obama also disputed Mc-
Cain’s theory of taxes on
business, showing that the
companies McCain wished
to give a tax credit to were
the same ones jumping
through the large loopholes
within the system, allow-ing
them to avoid paying
the taxes. Obama reasoned
that in this economy, not
all things could be feasibly
done, citing the financial
deficit and the passing of
the 700 billion dollar eco-nomic
stimulus to Wall St.
companies. However, the
Mission Statement:
Our mission, that we have
chosen to accept, is to in-form,
inspire, entertain
and provide a forum of
discussion for all those in
the North Park commu-nity.
It is our goal to pres-ent
an outlet for all forms
of student expression and
to create a paper that you
want to read.
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Friday, 3 October 2008 North Park Press 3
Word from SA President Hannah Flint
Thank you all for a great Homecoming week. Tricia Pitts
and Nykki Thompson did a fantastic job organizing the
student events and Javiar Payano deserves credit for dili-gently
running all the media.
I was recently asked to write a thank-you for the schol-arships
I have received at North Park. I found it difficult
to express in a short note all of my thoughts and feelings
about North Park. As a freshman I struggled to feel con-nected
to the North Park community and I found lots of
differences between myself and my classmates. During my
sophomore year, through a fluke, I had the opportunity to
join Student Association and I began to learn to identify
with many different types of people at North Park. Student
Association provided me with a purposeful venue in which
to work with my fellow students for the good of the Uni-versity.
No matter what stage of your university career you
are in, I hope you have an opportunity to find purpose here
at North Park. My thank-you note expressed my gratitude
for the generosity of those who find their purpose in giving
back to North Park. In 10 years I hope to be giving back to
the university that taught me so much about living a pur-poseful
life.
At the Student Association meeting on Monday we heard
from Laurie Konecky, Threshold Coordinator. She asked
us to provide her some feedback on Threshold and ideas to
make it an even better event for next year. I would like to
open this offer up to the entire student body, if you have an
opinion about Threshold please email your class Senators
and we’ll work with Laurie to make it happen!
At your service,
Hannah Flint
Please, Please Tell Me!
construction of Obama’s
economic plan would not
be thwarted, because of the
need for alternative energy,
and health care reform, the
rebuilding of national in-frastructure,
and the com-petition
in education are
precedents to America’s
standing as a world power.
In relation to the lessons
of Iraq, McCain repeatedly
stated that the surge has
worked; leaving would only
endanger Iraq to more sec-tarian
violence, and in the
end hurt the United States
in security matters as well
as national prestige. Mc-
Cain sees potential in Iraq,
stating that its fledgling de-mocracy
will, in the future,
aid American interests as
an ally and economic part-ner.
McCain challenged
Obama’s belief in the abil-ity
of the military to “fin-ish
the job” in Iraq as well
as Obama’s understanding
of the need to control Iran
as an “existential threat to
the region and Israel” in
particular. If McCain were
elected, his foreign policy
would support the aid giv-en
to Pakistan to limit the
Taliban and Al-Queda pres-ence
in Pakistan and Af-ghanistan.
Yet the pinnacle
of foreign policy lies within
the success of Iraq by root-ing
out Iranian importation
of IEDs and other arms,
along with terrorist cells
within Iraq. McCain called
for a “league of democra-cies”
that share common
interests and ideas, to place
tougher sanctions on Iran
with the cooperation the
international community.
Obama contended that
the United States should
never have entered into
war against Iraq, because
of heinous leadership, no
presence of weapons of
mass destruction, and sig-nificantly
less international
aid. The job was not fin-ished
in Afghanistan, where
the 9/11 terrorists origi-nated,
and now the Taliban
and Al-Queda are stronger
than ever, the United States
simply, “took their eye off
the ball.” Obama refuted
McCain’s statements of
lack of financial support to
troops, by stating that “we
should never hesitate to use
our military, we just need
to use it wisely and not give
this current administration
a blank check with no set
limit.” The fundamental
difference that Obama had
with McCain on foreign
policy was that the United
States needed to shift its fo-cus
away from Iraq to Af-ghanistan,
Pakistan, Russia
and China. Obama believed
that while the United States
was engrossed in the Iraqi
occupation, China spread its
influence across the world,
diminishing the influence of
America as a super power.
“This is the most impor-tant
election in the history
of the United States,” pro-claimed
junior Joseph Wil-liams,
“this will determine
our standing relationship
with the world, and exis-tence
as a country.” Wheth-er
students realize it or not,
there will be a paramount
difference between life dur-ing
and life after college.
More people are going to
have additional credit prob-lems
when considering
loans for graduate school,
purchasing a car, house or
apartment, or insurance.
Now is not the time to stand
on the sidelines. Now is not
the time to remain ignorant
on policies. Now is the time
for our generation to rise up
to its potential and be heard.
Do what it takes to get in-formed;
go to discussion
groups, read newspapers,
check out the candidates
web pages, and register to
vote! There should be a
law against people who ab-stain
from voting yet have
the loudest voice of oppo-sition.
Now is most cer-tainly
a time for action, not
merely words of change. *
Upcoming Election Calander:
October 7 - Presidential debate at Belmont University
October 7- Voter registrator deadline for IL residence
October 15- Presidential debate at Hofstra University
November 4- General election
January 20- Innugration
The Writing Center is proud
and thrilled to be able to
say “2nd Annual” before
Hibbard Book Drive this
year. The Hibbard Book
Drive is going on from Oc-tober
6th-10th in Carlson
Lobby and is a phenomenal
way for you to support your
neighbors. It’s easy to feel
content in the North Park
bubble, potentially you
could go all 4 years (or 5 in
some cases...) without ever
having to really go outside
of your comfort zone. You
can go to all the downtown
sites with friends from NPU,
volunteer places with only
fellow North Parkers, go to
only Covenant churches or
perhaps saunter over to the
Wood on a Thursday night
to see and be seen. None
of these things are wrong,
but it makes it easy to live
in a big city without ever
really meeting the people
who create it. The Hib-bard
Book Drive and the
HERO (Hibbard Elemen-tary
Reach-Out) program
were made for exactly this
purpose. 90% of these kids
are living in household un-derneath
the poverty line,
90%! These are the kids
who live next door or in the
apartment across the street.
The Hibbard Book Drive
provides a way for you to
buy a book for students to
improve their classrooms
and library. We have a
whole bunch of bilingual
books this year as well as
Spanish books and their
English counterparts. This
provides an opportunity
for the students to take the
books home and learn Eng-lish
with their parents. The
HERO program is a chance
for you to use the skills
you’ve been acquiring here
at North Park in the class-rooms.
It’s a unique way
to get hands-on experience
before graduation, but with
a flexible schedule. One
hour a week, for one se-mester.
Are you into art?
We’ll set you up with an art
class! Love math? We’ll
get you paired up with a
math class. As you can see
there are so many places
for you within the greater
community, so come see
us next week in Carlson
and feel free to e-mail us
with questions at school-suppliesdrive@
gmail.com.
Hibbard Book Drive did you say?!
Well, that sounds fun!
Jennie Merrill
Copy Editor
In lieu of a “So What Do You Think” article this week I am going
to use my space to implore you to give us feedback on the paper. As a staff
we sit in the press office every Tuesday and Thursday night, often until
about 3 or 4 in the morning, trying to put together a paper you will enjoy.
When it comes down to it though, we are only fifteen individual students,
a small percentage of the student body. What we might think is really great
about the paper you might hate. Maybe we even took out your favorite
component from last year.
So, my apologetic rambling aside, I really just ask that you answer
some questions for us. You can respond by:
A) writing on our facebook group’s wall
B) sending me a facebook message
C) emailing me at northparkpress.gmail.com
D) taking this questionnaire, filling it out, cutting it out, and sliding it un-der
the press room door
E) coming talk to us on Tuesday or Thursday nights at 7pm.
Our questions for you include:
1. Do you like the new “newspaper” layout or did you prefer the maga-zine?
2. How does the content of our writing rate?
3. What would you still like to see in the paper?
4. What do you think we should take out?
5. Any other comments…
4 North Park Press Friday, 3 October 2008
Mind
Puzzles
Can you do this? Say
the color of the word
not the word itself.
Ben Van Loon
Student Writer
Navigating
Depression
As I’m sure most of
you know, Autumn is now
upon us. The leaves will
die with traditional verid-ian
melancholy, and the
puce-colored North Branch
of the Chicago River will
slowly lose its familiar
and welcoming warmth.
Philosophers love the Fall.
Poets love the Fall. Artists
love the Fall. And, more
than anyone else, Phar-maceuticals
love the Fall.
According to Modern-
Medicine.com, in 2006,
over 186 million people
were taking prescription
anti-depressants, with that
number remaining stable
throughout most of 2007
as well. This is not count-ing
the number of people
pursuing herbal remedies,
therapy, and other alterna-tive
modes of psychologi-cal
healing. These numbers
are interesting to consider,
but I’m not a statistician, so
I won’t make any declara-tive
statements. Though,
if the sales of anti-depres-sants
can reveal any one
specific thing to us, it is that
there is a problem with the
American Spirit. Alternate-ly,
one may need only look
to content of the advertis-ing
industry to arrive at the
same conclusion. After all,
how else would we know
what Zoloft is if it wasn’t
for that bouncing circle?
I provide a counterpoint
to this saddening state of
things. As we look to those
browning leaves, drifting
slowly into the streets of
our quiet neighborhood
in Albany Park, it will be
helpful and encouraging to
keep a condition in mind:
Dysthymia. Mentalhealth.
com says that Dysthymia
is “a chronic condition
characterized by depres-sive
symptoms that occur
for most of the day, more
days than not, for at least 2
years.” And at this point, it
stands that we are all famil-iar
with the symptoms of
depression: lethargy, loss
of appetite, an increased
disinterest in social activ-ity,
palpable melancholy,
and DVD box-sets of
‘House’ or ‘Six Feet Under.’
What is interesting about
Dysthymia, besides all of
that psychological banter,
is its more existential im-plications.
Rarediseases.
org, an extremely entertain-ing
website, says this about
Dysthymia: “When the
depressive state has lasted
for several years, it may
be difficult to distinguish
between a person’s usual
functioning and the mood
disturbance.” The existen-tial
implication here is el-ementary
- you might have
Dysthymia without even
knowing. A habit we have,
with most psychological
states, is to explain them
away with scientific terms
and chemical or neuro-chemical
interactions. We
forget, as the adage goes,
that everything biologi-cal
is equally psychologi-cal.
Or is that ‘everything
psychological is equally
diagnosible?’ Either way
it stands that there isn’t
much room here for theory.
I don’t mean to cause any
of you paranoia, which is
more serious than depres-sion.
Though it might be
helpful to know that if you
are paranoid, you are lack-ing
some of the symptoms
of depression (ie: apathy).
Be encouraged in this.
Dysthymia is no laughing
matter, though if you were
depressed you wouldn’t re-ally
be sure. I do have three
ideas to propose, how-ever,
which may be help-ful
to you if feel this is a
condition all-too-familiar:
1) Make friends. They
are a great distraction from
whatever existential angst
may be bearing down upon
you. This is the way most
people treat their friends,
in fact - a philanthropic
form of entertainment.
2) Don’t ever ask why.
SPORTS
Homecoming Win
Luc Larson
FGuest Writer ootball’s 35-10
victory over Benedic-tine
on Saturday capped
off a perfect homecom-ing
week for North Park.
It began with a beautiful,
cloudless day in the upper
80’s. Groundskeeper Rich
Eckman was busy finish-ing
his weekend routine of
cleaning and preparing the
field for the day’s events.
The players were stretching
and the cheers were start-ing.
Katie Lord and Katie
Cavallo opened the game
with a beautiful ode to
America, which was writ-ten
by Lord and her sister.
Next came the main
event, as the football team
came out to a charged and
packed crowd. Benedictine
scored first with a 22-yard
field goal, but North Park
was quick to answer with
a reverse run and pass as
Jeremy Dybdahl connect-ed
with Sam Lialios for a
31-yard touchdown pass.
North Park took firm con-trol
of the game with the
defense owning 7 turn-overs,
allowing the offense
to steamroll Benedictine.
Senior Jacob Mueller ran
for a total of 98 yards and
Just So You Know
Colby Anderson
Sports Editor
two touchdowns. Quarter-back
Shelby Wood passed
for 126-yards and two
touchdowns to Sam Co-
Athlete of
the Week
Colby Anderson
Sports Editor
chiaro and Sam Lialios.
Halftime brought the
announcement of Home-coming
King Adrian
Battle and Queen Tanikia
Thompson and an electri-fying
performance by the
cheer squad, which prac-ticed
4 times a week in
photo by Luc Larson
Here’s a quick re-cap
of this weekend’s
NPU sporting events:
The Men’s Soccer Team
The sports section
will be featuring what will
now be known as the North
Park Press Athlete of the
Week. What better way
to start this off than to ac-knowledge
the victorious
Rue the day you ever did.
Shun philosophy and, along
with your friends, mock
anyone who might cause
you to think differently.
3) Take anti-depressants. If
you feel you are depressed,
listen to the wisdom of
your friends. Depression
is PURELY chemical.
I’ve always felt I could
trust the smile of a person
if I knew it was fueled by
serotonin-norepineph-efforts
of the North Park
Football Vikings? Forcing
six fumbles and recovering
four of them, the Defense
swarmed the ball and got
strong pressure into the
backfield. Lighting up the
scoreboard for thirty five
points, the Offense, despite
hitting a few minor snags
here and there, capital-ized
on the hard work of
the Defense. In admitting
that Benedictine was a very
weak opponent, we can still
take joy in this victory and
look ahead to next Satur-day’s
game at Wheaton
(1pm). Wheaton will be a
much more challenging op-ponent
and I look forward
to seeing how our North
Park Football Vikings face
this test. Whatever the case,
there is definitely a growing
buzz around what has been
a perennially disappointing
program. Perhaps this vic-tory
was a flash in the pan,
but after all the hard work
put in over the summer and
throughout this young sea-son,
I’d like to think that this
victory was a sign of things
to come. If you believe an
afternoon of playing video
games or watching football
on TV is better than going
to a North Park football
game, then you are sadly
mistaken. NEXT HOME
GAME!!! SATURDAY
OCTOBER 11th 1PM!!! *
fell to Wheaton in a close
one 1-2. A depleted Wom-en’s
Soccer Team (six play-ers
unable to play) lost to
Webster 0-3. The Women’s
Volleyball Team lost to
FREELANCE
Elmhurst in five games,
but is riding high on a very
nice 15-6 record. And last,
but most certainly not least,
the Football Team domi-nated
Benedictine 35-14.
In a brief look into Intramu-ral
Football, quarterback
Sean Burke completed
the game winning pass to
tight end Peter “Formerly-known-
as-Goose” Gosen
for the 2-point conversion
with only eight seconds
left. Giving Amish Rake-fight
the win over their
opponent, a well-rounded
team led by Ross Kennedy
and Matt Carlson. I attend-ed
the game and greatly en-joyed
the 58-57 barnburner.
NOTICE: Anyone with
footage of Ryan Dono-van’s
ridiculous catches
will be paid and their foot-age
submitted to ESPN
for national display. *
preparation for the show.
The star of the day though,
was the North Park football
team who showed the real
talent and capabilities they
hold. Not since September
15 of last year were players
able to sing their victory
chant, and sing they did. *
rine reuptake inhibitors.
Victorian-era poet Robert
Browning said, “Autumn
wins you best by this its
mute appeal to sympathy
for its decay.” This line
lights up the room, if only
for its bare celebration of
the changing seasons. The
question one should pon-der
at this point is if the
leaves on the trees look
more beautiful framed by
your bedroom window, or a
naked and melancholy twi-light
sky. If you are unsure,
and have never thought
about these things then I
leave you with two options.
Has such a melacholy be-come
so deeply rooted in
our consciousness that we
can no longer distinguish
what is and is not outside
the bedroom window. Or,
might Escitalopram simply
enhance our vision. (This
article has been funded
by a small grant from
Forest Laboratories). *
Congradulations to Krista
Johnson for winning the
coloring contest in Issue 2!
She gets a giftcard to Star-bucks...
you should have
entered, duh!
LOCAL
News
Prohibition Sally Visits
Wrigleville Kylee Reynolds
Local News Editor
Friday, 3 October 2008 North Park Press 5
Eric Turner
I World News Editor n the first Presiden-tial
Debate last week, one
of the more contentious
points of debate was over
an issue that has been kept
out of the public eye, but
could potentially be one of
the most important issues
our next President will
face: the plan for Pakistan.
Overshadowed in the
news by Iraq and neigh-boring
Afghanistan, Paki-stan
is in a perilous posi-tion,
both geographically
and politically. Pakistan
borders both Afghanistan
and Iran, as well as India, a
nation Pakistan has fought
numerous wars with in the
past, and currently is main-taining
an uneasy peace.
Politically, the nation is
highly unstable, isn’t even
in control of large parts
of it’s territory, and prone
to violence, evidenced by
the assassination of for-mer
president Benazir
Bhutto last December, and
the bombing of the Mar-riott
Hotel last month that
killed over 40 people. On
top of that, the nation is
Between Iran &
a Hard Place
one of the few in the world
with access to nuclear
weaponry, making things
much more complicated.
But perhaps the biggest
issue in Pakistan with rami-fications
for the rest of the
world is the presence of Al
Qaeda in Pakistan. Along
the nation’s mountainous
northwest border with Paki-stan
lie various tribal areas,
which are given autonomy
from the Pakistani govern-ment.
It is widely believed
that large remnants of Al
Qaeda, and possibly even
Osama bin Laden himself,
reside in these regions of
Pakistan. Pakistan has re-fused
to attack in the au-tonomous
tribal areas, fear-ing
it could cause unrest
in the country. With the
resurgence of violence in
Afghanistan and growing
frustration at the fact that
Bin Laden remains at large,
there has been increasing
pressure for the United
States and NATO to go into
Pakistan to track down rem-nants
of Al Qaeda, since it
appears Pakistan cannot
do it on their own without
risking significant instabil-ity,
or even terrorist attacks
like the hotel bombing.
There are obvious risks to
doing something like this.
Pakistan has historically
been a strong ally of the
United States, and former
President Pervez Musharraf
was one of the most visible
world leaders to assist the
United States during the
initial invasion of Afghani-stan.
The New York Times
estimates that over $10 Bil-lion
in military aid has been
given to Pakistan since
9-11, in return for control-ling
Al Qaeda within their
borders and assisting the
overall war on terror. As the
nation shares a border with
Afghanistan and Iran, it’s
assistance in foreign affairs
is vital to American inter-ests.
Pakistan is well armed,
and has the potential to be
a significant ally in a criti-cally
important part of the
world; and a well armed,
nuclear powered night-mare
if they were to turn
against the United States.
Because of this, the Unit-ed
States is between a rock
and a hard place: Go into
Pakistan to attack Al Qae-da,
and anger the Pakistani
government, or do nothing,
allowing Al Qaeda to con-tinue
to survive, but keeping
good terms with Pakistan.
In the past, NATO has re-fused
to attack Al Qaeda in
Pakistan without Pakistani
approval. As of late, how-ever,
this appears to have
changed: despite an official
statement that NATO was
not involved in Pakistan, on
September 3rd, a predawn
raid on a Pakistani village
believed to be used by Al
Qaeda resulted in anywhere
from 7 to 20 deaths, some
of which are allegedly ci-vilians.
This lead to wide-spread
outrage in Pakistan,
as the raid was widely
believed to have been car-ried
out by NATO forces.
As a result, the director
of Pakistan’s armed forces
informed his soldiers to
fire upon any NATO forces
seen entering the country.
This resulted in an incident
on September 22, when,
according to the BBC,
Pakistani forces exchanged
fire with NATO forces
conducting a strike in the
country. While there were
no casualties, the incident
has dramatically increased
tensions between Pakistan
and the NATO allies. Any
further escalation could be
disastrous for both sides.
Naturally, this complicat-ed,
critical issue has spilled
over to the Presidential
campaign, as both Barack
Obama and John McCain
have been pressed on how
they would handle the cri-sis.
Obama has gone on
record as stating that, if the
United States had identified
the location of top Al Qaeda
officials in Pakistan, they
should not hesitate to attack
that location, regardless of
how Pakistan would react.
John McCain has suggest-ed
that politicians should
remain silent on the issue,
and deal with the matter
privately, although running
mate Sarah Palin has en-dorsed
the idea of air strikes
within Pakistani territory.
The situation in Pakistan
may not get nearly as much
attention as its neighbors,
but it is just as critical as
any situation in the world.
Though the situation may
be erupting halfway around
the world, it’s aspects- ter-rorism,
Bin Laden, Nuclear
Weapons, Afghanistan, and
the threat of war-are all is-sues
that affect us here at
home. Regardless of it’s
outcome, this situation
alerts us to just the type of
difficult decisions our fu-ture
leaders must make. *
WORLD
News
www.worldatlas.com
Mayor Daley
has asked the bars in
Wrigleyville to oblige
to the rule followed in-side
the stadium: no al-cohol
served after the
seventh inning stretch.
It is hoped that this one
hour ban on beer will
help stop the crazy
partying that happens
when the Cubs play.
While agreeing to the
ban is voluntary, May-or
Daley has made it
known that establish-ments
that resist will
have some trouble
when it comes to re-newing
their liquor
license. In response
to the complaints
given by bar owners
about the curb in rev-enue
they are bound
to experience, Daley
scoffed with the retort,
“they made enough
money all year.”
Owners are worried
that the customers
who lack tickets to the
game and end up on
their barstools, will
dash to bars not having
to succumb to the ban.
As soon as games end,
the bars would be free
to re-open, so the only
business lost would be
that by onlookers in
bars during the last in-nings
of the game. Ulti-mately,
bars can expect
a surge of beer sales
during the sixth inning
to last them through
the end of the game.
Since Mayor Daley
hasn’t been one to fos-ter
ideas like this in the
past, it has been specu-lated
that his decision
behind this is partly
because the location
for the 2016 Olympics
is still being decided,
with Chicago as one
of the top contenders.
Alderman Thomas
Tunney (44th), whose
ward reaches to Wrig-leyville,
said in an in-terview
with the Chi-cago
Tribune, “The
Mayor wants everyone
on their best behavior.”
When a game ends,
Cubs’ fans roam wild in
the streets of Chicago
and quite a few trickle
back up here to North
Park. When told about
the ban, one student
responded, “I think
it’s a ridiculous deci-sion
that compromises
an important aspect of
a long held tradition
in Chicago’s culture.”
Alternately, another
student said, “that’s
a really good idea. It
would be much safer.”
As the Cubs duke
it out for their first
World Series win in
a hundred years, one
can be assured that
for every soda-sipping
fan, there will be one
fan not drunk enough
for his favorite lei-sure,
complaining. *
Amanda Dayton
Wally G.
6 North Park Press Friday, 3 October 2008
PULSE
Hot List Liz Boyd
Open Mic Night Pulse Editor
at Chianski’s!
Liz Boyd
Pulse Editor
Meet Stanley, Flat Stanley, the newest member of the
North Park Campus. The long established tradition of elemen-tary
schools across the nation has now made its way to our
university. The Flat Stanley Project is based on the book Flat
Stanley by Jeff Brown. It chronicles the life of young Stanley
Lambchop who, after an unfortunate mishap with a bulletin
board, gets flattened. Then, to save money on a trip to Califor-nia,
he mails himself to friends for school vacation. For over
ten years now school children all over the country have been
mailing their own Flat Stanleys to friends and relatives, and
learning about places they have never been before. Now it is
your turn, North Park. This is your chance to make your own
Flat Stanley. Take him around North Park – to your dorm,
your apartment, Millennium Park, or even the zoo. Mail him
to a friend. Whatever you do with your Stanley, take a picture
and send it back to us at the paper. The most creative Stanley
pictures will be featured in upcoming issues of the Press. This
little project we’ve created serves another purpose as well. Ev-ery
week, thirty or so North Parkers spend time tutoring stu-dents
at Hibbard Elementary School, our neighbor to the south.
These students will be doing the same project and we want
them to have some examples to look upon. So show Stanley
your North Park. Or your Chicago. Cut out Stanley and deco-rate
him, or go to flatstanley.com and print out your own. Send
your pictures to northparkpress@gmail.com or bring them by
the Press office in the basement of Burgh. I’m sending mine to
friends in India and Sweden, where will your Flat Stanley go?
Flat
Stanley
Christine Wahlskog
Student Writer
Cut me
out and
color
me!
‘Open mic’ is a
term that every vocal art-ist
should be familiar with.
Open mic is just that: a mi-crophone
set-up where po-ets,
singers, and instrumen-talists
can show off their
(sometimes) considerable
talents. If you are one of
these talented people then
Chinaski’s is the place for
you . . . at least on Wednes-day
nights. Every Wednes-day
night Chianski’s, lo-cated
at 1935 N Damen St,
hosts a free literary open
mic. So all of you poets
and writers of prose, this is
an event specifically fash-ioned
for you. Chinaski’s,
formerly known as Whis-key
Road, is fairly new.
This bar is also host to a
Thursday night comedy
open mic. The bar is so
devoted to literary aware-ness
that the name of the
bar/restaurant is from an
autobiographical Charles
Bukowski character (a Ger-man
poet and short story/
novel writer) as well as
having all the sandwiches
on their menu named after
maverick poets and au-thors.
To sign up, merely
show up at 7:30 p.m. that
night and the performances
start at 8:00 p.m. If you’re
the strong silent type and
don’t feel like perform-ing,
you can simply go and
watch the artistry unfold.
5.) The service – Did anyone else feel like roy-alty?
The waiters and waitresses did a fantastic
job presenting the food and bringing it around.
4.) The DJ- The music was poppin’ as was
evidence by the copious amounts of students
dancing.
3.) The shark feeding – how many times in
your life will you get to see that Scuba Steve
looking guy swimming with the sharks, giant
sea turtles, and various fish?
2.) Fellow Students – With the exception of
a few boxer-wearing people, everyone was
dressed to kill and it’s always nice to see every-one
so dressed up!
1.) The Location – The Shedd Aquarium was
so cool and for those who had never been it was
a revelation. Just a thin sheet of glass separated
you from the deep blue sea. It was awesome.
Five Great Things about
Homecoming Dance!
The Parkyns gettin’ their groove on at the dance!
North Parkers gettin’ their groove on at the dance!
CAMPUS
News
Marcus Simmons Campus News Editor
Magnuson to reopen sooner rather than later
Although the dam­age to Magnuson Campus Center is quite extensive, Carl Balsam, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the university, is hopeful con­cerning its reopening.
In response to a question about whether it would be next semester before Magnuson would reopen, Balsam stated that, “I cer­tainly would expect it to be sooner rather than later [next semester].”
Just over two weeks ago, historic flooding of the North Branch led to the evacuation of more than 300 Albany Park homes, two university dormitories, and the closing of Magnu­son Campus Center due to extensive flood damage. Although residents have returned to their homes and students to their dorms, Magnuson Campus Center has yet to be reopened for regular use. Balsam and Physical Plant workers say that, “this is probably the worst that we’ve ever seen here at North Park in terms of damage and it’s going to cost us a lot of money.”
“The overall recovery of the equipment room in Magnuson basement is a long, long process,” Balsam continues, “because a lot of that equipment was ruined being underwater. The city has codes that require any electrical stuff that was underwater to be totally replaced.” According to him, Magnuson is under­going careful evaluations to determine what equip­ment has to be replaced and what may still be function­al. “There are air handlers and boilers and pumps and all kinds of equipment. Each one of those pieces of equipment will have to be checked out. Some might be repairable and some we might have to just totally replace with new.”
Many of the same contrac­tors responsible for the work on Helwig and the recent Burgh Hall renovation have dropped current projects in order to assist with restor­ing the forty-two-year-old Campus Center. “We’ve got some very clever peo­ple working for us,” Bal­sam explains. He has hired a recovery manager to lead the re-construction efforts, someone who has managed much of the restoration of the Marshall Fields stores in 1992 after flooding in in­dustrial tunnels downtown damaged 230 buildings and caused them to close temporarily. The recovery team has been able to make many strides towards their goal of restoring campus life back to normal. The kitchen power is back in working condition, several temporary hot water heaters have been installed to pro­vide hot water for cleaning kitchen equipment, and the ventilation system is work­ing again. As a result, Ara­mark has been able to move back into its kitchen, where it can support the dining operation in Hamming. Up until recently, supplies and goods were brought from Northwestern University.
The next goal is to get stu­dents back into the dining hall, but this may prove to a substantial challenge. “The challenge there is the ven­tilation requirements in the building and so we are de­veloping a temporary way of providing adequate ven­tilation in the dining hall; that’s what we’re working on right now,” Balsam ex­plains. “We’ll have to make sure that the city agrees with our plan and that they are able to check it out and agree that it provides ad­equate ventilation. I think were talking in terms of weeks not months on that unless we get shot down, which we’re not expecting.”
The university has at­tempted some substantial, and costly, improvements in the last couple of years. This began with the acqui­sition and renovation of the Park North and Sawyer Court apartment buildings in addition tothat was fol­lowed by the construction of the Helwig Recreation Center. Salary, Stipend, and Hourly pay was recently raised in the midst of sig­nificant tuition adjustments. Furthermore, several de­partments have grown in staff while entirely new de­partments, like the Office of Diversity and Inter-Cultural Programs, have been creat­ed. Burgh and parts of Wil­son and Hanson Halls Old Main were most recently renovated. One might ask if all of this, coupled with the cost of flood repairs will affect plans for the newAcademic and Com­munity Life Student Union building announced recent­ly by the President. Bal­sam says, “I don’t think so. Most of that [money] will come from donor sources. So we’re still working on that plan to ensure thatsee if we can raise the money required we need to raise. That would be a separate item and I don’t know that they’re particularly linked.”
Although hopeful, Bal­sam is careful not to give a definitive date for the reopening of Magnuson
I’m so sick and tired of invites to Starbucks. It seems like the cliché thing to do, when you’re trying to get to know someone. Most of us are guilty of it. We go to the Starbucks on Fos­ter Ave. where we’re sure to see at least two famil­iar faces from North Park, pay for overpriced coffee and milk, have an hour of surface conversation, and go about our merry way. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ready to go deeper. Last year I went on Facebook and deleted all of my so called “friends”. It may sound like I was be­ing immature, but hear me out. Facebook provides you with the basic information of my hometown, birthday and religion, but you don’t know me. Facebook grants you access to view photos of my family, friends and the places I’ve traveled to, but you still don’t know me. Facebook allows you to see what I want you to see. If I dislike a comment that someone wrote on my page, I simply delete it. If I dislike a picture if me, I simply untag it. Facebook
Let’s Challenge Ourselves to Go Deeper
Tanikia “Nykki” Thompson
Campus News Editor
will never allow you to know the struggles and confusion of me having one brother who is mental­ly challenged and another who is handicap. You’d never know that last fall after I moved into Sawyer Court, while taking my first shower there I cried, be­cause I knew that my fam­ily at home were still tak­ing cold showers since our gas had been cut off due to lack of money. We must ask ourselves what lies behind a smile? What lies behind the common “Hi, how are you? Good, how are you? Good.”? Starbucks may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, but don’t let it end there. This year I took the challenge of living in a diverse house. After partic­ipating in two Sankofa trips (University Ministries ra­cial reconciliation trip that I personally believe should be a graduation require­ment), I was ready to go deeper. Our house consists of four white women and four black women. Every Tuesday evening we have our small group meeting which consists of catch­ing up, an activity, prayer, and a chance to go deeper. I wonder what would’ve happened if after Sankofa we simply just met up at Starbucks throughout the year, but remained in our comfort zones. After all isn’t this what college is about? We come to col­lege to obtain an educa­tion, but to also challenge ourselves to go deeper. If you’re the same person on graduation day that you were as a freshman on the first day of Threshold, then something’s wrong. I know that we’re all busy with classes, work, etc., but we must have balance. Let’s take time out of our busy schedules to spend quality time with someone who we only know on the surface. You’d be surprised to find out who’s anxiously wait­ing to be invited to your house for the weekend. You may even be surprised to learn that someone who you consider to be a friend has been patiently waiting to go deeper with you. Let the challenge begin… Now!*
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-
Are you regis­tered to vote? I hope so. It’s only every four years that we can participate in a presidential election.
Whether you’re Republi­can or Democrat, it’s safe to say that the 2008 presi­dential elections will be history making. It was 1920 when women received their right to vote and now Sarah Palin could make history by becoming the first wom­an to be a Vice President. It was 1870 when black men were granted their right to vote and now Barack Obama could make history by becoming the first black man to be President. Those facts alone are inspiring the younger generation to participate in this election. “This is my first time vot­ing in a presidential elec­tion, and as an African American young woman it is unacceptable not to vote when my ancestors would have loved to have had the opportunity to vote and to have witnessed an African American man be consid­ered as the potential presi­dent of the United States of America”, Ramona Gant, Junior. Registering to vote isn’t as hard as you may
Will Your Voice Be Heard?
Tanikia “Nykki” Thompson
Campus News Editor
because he doesn’t want to disappoint the North Park community. “All I can tell you is we’re going flat out, t. Trying to do everything we can to restore normality to the students’ lives and I think from a student per­spective, it will very shortly appear like pretty normal.”*
think it is. Simply go to Brandel Library and regis­ter with Sue Griffith (lower level) or Sally Anderson. “It’s important to vote for two reasons: It’s our right and it’s an exciting election because of our problems with the economy and gas prices. I love to see college students participate in an election,” said Sue Griffith. Voter registration deadline is October 7th, but there will be a grace period reg­istration Oct. 8-21, which must be in person only at the Election Board if you miss the deadline. We have more power than we think. It’s up to us to heal this na­tion, to demand change, and to let our voices be heard. Please don’t let this historic moment pass you by. In the following weeks there will be a variety of events on campus to inform students about voting, nominees, etc. Please attend these events and discussions in order to be well prepared for No­vember 4th (Election Day).
“If a man hasn’t discov­ered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- *
The African Student Club is a newly created group that seeks to broaden the cultural horizon of students, while striving to highlight the international experi­ence of African students at North Park University. This group was created as a re­sponse to the substantial growth and recent increase in enrollment of African students on campus. The purpose of this club is:
To unite students that are either from or in­terested in Africa.
To provide students with meaningful oppor­tunities to experience au­thentic African culture through campus events, social events, workshops and educational venues.
To be a cross cultural bridge that joins North Park University to other Chicago based institu­tions that work positive­ly for change in Africa.
From Sudan, Kenya, Mali, Eritrea, Guinea, Ni­geria, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Zambia, Congo, Uganda and more, these students bring unique sto­ries, exceptional experienc­es and different voices that add immensely to the glob­al culture of the University.
For more information, please e-mail sthontwa@northpark.edu. And stay tune for our first event on October 4th, 7pm, in Anderson chapel.*
African
Student Club
Come celebrate the culmination of His­panic Heritage month next Wednesday! All of September focused on the issue of time, with Rene Rochester closing out the month speaking about her own experiences with God. Last Wednes­day, the chapel gath­ered together to share communion. Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God, Mud­house Sabbath, and Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity, was the speaker. Now as we enter into the month of October we will begin a series on authority. Next week we welcome Samuel Betances as he comes to speak about the dif­ference between power and authority. LASO will be serving refresh­ments. So whether you come to sing all our Spanish worship or to be challenged by Dr. Betances mes­sage, enjoy and join in this time of gathering to praise our Lord.*
Chapel Happenings
Laurel Wells
Student Writer
http://clubs.calvin.edu8 North Park Press Wednesday, 24 September 2008
I turn 51 this year. This year on October 12, 2008, I will be running my 6th Chicago Marathon.
First, please allow me to thank you for your prayers and your support for my efforts. I ran my first Chi­cago Marathon in 2003. In the years 2003-05, you sup­ported me and gave very generously to fight cancer. In 2006, I ran the Chicago Marathon to raise money to fight AIDS through World Vision. I dedicated my 2005 and 2006 runs to my sister who died of ovarian cancer. She was a great supporter of World Vision. I am truly grateful for your generous support during these runs. I dedicated my 2007 Chicago Marathon run and the 200 mile New Hampshire Re­lay to fight Global Slavery.
This year also I dedicate my 2008 Chicago Mara­thon to fight global slav­ery through the Break the Chains initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church’s Women’s Minis­try. According to the United Nations Commission for hu­man rights, there are more that 30 million slaves in the world today. 80 % of these are women and more that 50 % of these are children.
At North Park University, in the past six years, I have taught a Dialogue course on Global Slavery. It has been an excruciatingly hard experience, since I was reared in New Delhi, among kids who were sold into slavery. My friends, as young as 8 yrs old, were sold into slavery into plac­es like the carpet industry. Young girls- 12 yrs old were sold as slaves into the sex trade. They just disap­peared one after another.
Global slavery is a real modern day horror. Ap­proximately two million children are enslaved in the commercial sex trade. Ex­ploiting poverty, this form of slavery is woven into the local economy of many countries. Nearly 300,000 children are forced to serve in bloody armed conflicts around the world. “Kill or be killed,” is what these chil­dren face on a daily basis.
An estimated 250 mil­lion children work in exploitative labor condi­tions around the world. From manufacturing sweatshops to domestic service, without choice, these children, may not be “technically “ slaves. But, they serve as slaves to in­dustry and the wealthy.
This year, please may I request you to support my run to eradicate global slavery through the “Break the Chains Initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church? The Women’s Ministry has dedicated these funds to go to fight­ing slavery through two hard working organiza­tions: One, the Hindustani Covenant Church in India. This church has a profound ministry in the slums of Mumbai, Pune, and many other towns and cities, from where kids- boys and girls- are taken into slavery. Two,
Running Through the Chains of Slavery
Prof. Boaz Johnson
the International Justice Mission has several pro­grams around the world to free and then to train freed slaves so that they remain free. You may learn more about these organizations through the following links: http://www.hccindia.org/ and http://www.ijm.org/ .
Please may I request you to support my small effort to raise money to eradi­cate Global Slavery? My prayer is the Wilberforce’s “Amazing Grace” will bear fruit through your sacrifi­cial giving. The best way to support my run to eradi­cate slavery is through the Covenant Church website: http://www.covchurch.org/humantrafficking/engag­ing-for-transformation/ath­letes-break-the-chains. You may also send me checks made out to ECC in support of Boaz Johnson’s run to Break the Chains. May God bless you richly as slaves are freed from slavery in dif­ferent parts of the world.*
A Smattering of Artwork by
Laura Prentice
Upper Left: Giant Quilt Project, Lower Left: Melanie and Haley, Lower Right: Old Lady in the City,
Middle Right: Relief Artist (Mosther and Child), Up­per Right: The Dream